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Fly4Real is bringing Spain’s first outdoor skydiving simulator to the Costa del Sol next month and have launched a competition to win the first 10 flights.
All you have to do to enter is send them an email, or fill out the contact form on their website www.fly-4-real.com before April 26.
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Today 2018 is World Health Day and the World Health Organization’s (WHO) 70th anniversary, with the theme this year being universal health coverage.
The WHO estimates that in 2010, 285 million people were visually impaired. 80% of all causes of visual impairment, however, are preventable or curable. In 2014 WHO launched a global action plan for Universal Eye Health and has just two more years to…

Spain hopes to sign off on a bilateral agreement with Britain over Gibraltar before October so as not to hinder a Brexit transition deal, as well as joint use of the airport, Spanish Foreign Minister Alfonso Dastis told Reuters yesterday.
Failure to reach an agreement on Gibraltar, a could disrupt a planned 21-month transition period for Britain following its official withdrawal from the European…

An iconic Marbella hotel is set for a €70-million renovation after being closed for over ten years.
The Hotel Don Miguel is due to reopen in 2019 after investors, who bought the abandoned property in 2013 under the name Magna Hotels & Resorts, reached a deal with top French hotel operator, Club Med.
A VIP ceremony in April will mark the beginning of the refurbishment which will create some…

As the saying goes “Careful what you wish for”.
I have been bleating on for months about the lack of rainfall in Andalucía over winter with dire warnings about impending water shortages and widespread drought.
My wooden fishing boats had become land locked, the normally submerged houses, abandoned when the reservoir that I live on was created in 1970, had started to appear and Marbella’s 4x4…

Funky Craft Brewery La Catarina is the venue for tonight's Charity Raffle in favour of Centro de Atención a la Diversidad Infantil.
The funds will be going to CADI (Centro de Atencion a la Diversidad Infantil) an association created by parents of children with special needs and who organise events in order to raise money to go towards therapies that would otherwise be very expensive and towards…

Work is due to start on the W Marbella next month
The €300 million project, located on the east of Marbella, will consist of 200 rooms, including 26 suites as well The Residences at W Marbella - a hundred apartments and low-rise villas that will offer owners access to all the facilities and services of the hotel.
With the opening of W Marbella in 2021, Spain will be the only European country to…

Cancer charity Andres Olivares Foundation presented its programme of activities in Marbella for 2018 at the Town Hall last week.
As well as charity president Andres Olivares, the event was attended by Isabel Cintado, Delegate of Social Rights and Lourdes Romero, responsible for the charity in Marbella. Cintado thanked the foundation for choosing Marbella and predicted a great response from the…

Trocadero Marbella Rugby Club 31 - 24 CD Arquitectura
Trocadero Marbella Rugby Club finished their second season is some style on Saturday with a stunning last minute victory.
Marbella went into the game eighth in the league and playing CD Arquitectura, three places above them and one of oldest names in Spanish rugby -established in 1931 - who had brought vocal support from……

Pet lovers and animal activists were celebrating last night as the contract that allowed the euthanising of abandoned animals was cancelled
With just three days left before the controversial contract was due to come into force the Town Hall announced that they will be drawing up a new contract in consultation with animal welfare group Triple A.
The decision comes after huge public outcry and and…

Beleaguered Marbella mayor Ángeles Muñoz responded to mounting criticism in a video statement this afternoon.
Faced with widespread public outcry at the decision to put the contract for receiving stray animals out to tender, and the possibility that this would be taken away from animal charity Triple A and awarded to a bid from one of the so-called "killing stations", Muñoz stated in her video…

The Cat in the Hat is Back!
Jamiroquai is set to play Marbella this summer.
The Acid Jazz pioneers, lead by front man Jay Kay, are best known for tracks such a "Virtual Insanity", "Cosmic Girl" and "Space Cowboy", will play Starlite on July 27.
Although this is the first time Jamiroquai has played in Marbella, the band have appeared in Malaga and were set to play the ill-fated Hipodromo in Mijas…

Hundreds of abandoned animals face the death sentence after Marbella mayor Angeles Muñoz and the Marbella Town Hall put the contract for receiving stray animals out to tender
For nearly 30 years Marbella animal rescue charity Triple A have protected and rehomed abandoned animals at minimal cost to Marbella Town Hall, and have over 400 animals at their centre on the Ojen road
This news leaves the…

One of the most iconic artists of the 20th century is coming to Malaga
Museo Picasso Málaga is hosting a major retrospective of Andy Warhol (1928-1987), with a special focus on the transmutations that his legacy underwent during his career, and the repetitive, schematizing and contrived nature of his visual work for more than three decades of feverish creative activity.
Andy Warhol (1928…

More rain is forecast for Marbella this weekend.
Storms are set to lash the Atlantic coast with yellow weather warnings issued for the Campo de Gibraltar and the Costa de la Luz.
The latest weather warnings came after a week of heavy rain that caused disruption to roads, flooded rivers and severe damage to several of Marbella’s beaches, only weeks ahead of the Easter holiday period.
The good…

The long awaited rains are set to arrive today
While the UK shivers from "The Beast from the East", heavy rain, strong winds and thunderstorms will hit Marbella over the next few days.
Spanish Metrological Office AEMET has put out a yellow warning for winds in Marbella today, as well as rain through the day.
Tomorrow, March 1, the winds will increase, with an orange warning of up to 40Kmh, and…

Marbella Mum of two and keen climber Hessia Fernandes has set her sights on Everest to raise 6,000€ for Malaga children’s charity the Nena Paine Foundation.
Hessia aims to trek to Everest Base Camp on October 7 and is looking for support to raise funds to buy a second-hand minibus for the charity for underprivileged children.
This is the third charity trek that Hessia has undertaken, previously…

The Malaga provincial court has released alleged Russian crime boss Arnold Spivakovsky (aka Tamm), on bail of €750,000.
Spivakovsky, who is known to Interpol as one of the leaders of the Solntsevskaya mafia, was arrested as part of Operation Oligarch that saw 11 other Russians taken into custody on suspicion of money laundering and ties to the Solntsevskaya and Izmaylovskaya mafias.
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Specsavers presented a cheque for over €6000 to ONCE earlier this month.
The company raised €6,107 for the charity Fundación ONCE para la Atención de Personas con Sordoceguera (FOAPS) between July and December 2017.
José Ángel Moral-Tajadura, Retail and Business Development Manager for Specsavers Spain presented a cheque to Marcelo Rosado, ONCE representative for Andalucía, Ceuta and Melilla and…

With apologies to Game of Thrones, "Winter has Come".
The bad weather that brought much of Spain to a standstill earlier this week is set to continue. Weather warnings remain in place until Thursday for more snow, wind and rain. The bad weather continues to cause chaos across the country, with snowfall affecting flights, road and rail.
Meanwhile amber and yellow weather warnings were issued for…